To evaluate the clinical characteristics, bacteriology, and therapeutic outcomes of community-acquired thoracic empyema (CATE) in young adults.
Identifying relevant papers from the literature is a common task in biocuration. Most current biomedical literature search systems primarily rely on matching user keywords. Semantic search, on the other hand, seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding the entities and contextual relations in user keywords
Procedure logging is an integral part of the fellowship curriculum in cardiovascular medicine and its subspecialties, particularly for the cardiovascular disease fellows who are acquiring advanced training in interventional cardiology, structural heart diseases, or clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
The dramatic impact of hemosiderosis on survival in chronically transfused patients with hereditary anaemia is well known. We evaluated whether patients receiving multiple red blood-cell (RBC) transfusions are adequately screened for hemosiderosis
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a potentially devastating immune mediated adverse drug reaction caused by the emergence of antibodies that activate platelets in the presence of heparin. Despite thrombocytopenia, bleeding is rare; rather, HIT is strongly associated with thromboembolic complications involving both the arterial and venous systems. A number of laboratory tests are avai…
Heparin is a proven effective anticoagulant therapy in many thrombotic conditions such as acute coronary syndrome and deep venous thrombosis, where heparin therapy is recommended after administration of thrombolytic agent to reduce mortality. Combining heparin with Aspirin reduces the risk of thrombosis by 75%2. Although heparin is highly successful in reducing morbidity and mortality associat…
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an immune complication of heparin therapy caused by antibodies to complexes of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and heparin. Pathogenic antibodies to PF4/heparin bind and activate cellular FcγRIIA on platelets and monocytes to propagate a hypercoagulable state culminating in life-threatening thrombosis. It is now recognized that anti- PF4/heparin antibodies de…
This study aims to develop a scoring system that will predict in-hospital morbidity post gastrointestinal (GI), pancreatic, hepatic cancer surgery in adult patients. This study took place in De La Salle University Medical Center
Atrial septal defect (ASD) closure is performed to prevent right ventricular (RV) dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension (PH). Persistent PH after ASD closure is associated with poor clinical outcome
A cute kidney injury (AKI) is a very common problem in critically ill patients. With the integration of consensus AKI definition criteria from Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-Stage Kidney Disease (RIFLE), Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN), and, most recently Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), AKI incidence in adult intensive care unit (ICU) settings has been reported to range b…